[CentOS] Centos and Dual Core Opteron in a Tyan Mobo

Mon May 15 15:39:28 UTC 2006
C.. Scott Heisler <Scott.Heisler at huntleighusa.com>

Johnny,

Thanks for expanding further on this.  What you described was exactly what I
was referencing.  All of the stock applications work fine.  I just ran into
some problems with 3rd party stuff that didn't have specific binaries for
the 64-bit OS.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
Of Johnny Hughes
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 6:26 AM
To: CentOS ML
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos and Dual Core Opteron in a Tyan Mobo

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 08:56 -0500, Erick Perez wrote:
> Scott, The system will handle the load of 30 call center agents and go
> up all they way to 200 agents talking simultaneously. It must also
> record the phone conversations of every and all agents/calls. So
> transcoding and/or I/O bottlenecks are an issue.
> That's why might seem overkill.
> 
> we will definitely recompile asterisk in that box. we will not run the
> bianries. However when you say compatibilities, you mean development
> tools? the compiler? sendmail? apache?
> 

If you are going to compile items on an x86_64 box using the CentOS
x86_64 arch, there are gotchas introduced by multiple libraries.

What you want to make sure you have is a pure x86_64 build environment
to build all x86_64 files.

You may need these 2 files that are i[3,4,5,6]86 (and only these x86
files ... any others can produce badly built binaries).

glibc.i686
glibc-devel.i386

What this means is, you can't run i386 items (like Open Office) on your
x86_64 machine that you want to use for building packages.

As far as all the built in server services, everything on x86_64 from a
server perspective works fine (sendmail, apache, gcc, rpm-build,
etc.) ... it is the mixing of shared libraries that will cause you
problems if you want to build.


> On 5/13/06, C.. Scott Heisler <Scott.Heisler at huntleighusa.com> wrote:
> > I'm not sure how many users you plan on serving with that Asterisk
> box... that does seem like a bit of overkill though.  I've read where
> a couple of hundred users are served quite well with a 1ghz CPU and a
> gig of RAM (single CPU).
> >
> > CentOS has a 64bit edition for the AMD CPU.  Dual-Core does not
> require anything special from the OS, no more that Hyperthreading did.
> The OS just sees 2 CPUs per DIE.  So, the OS will see 4 CPUs.  The
> only issue you will need to deal with is the 64-bit compatibilities.
> I've played with the 64-bit versions and you may run into some
> compatibility issues for software not specifically compiled for 64-bit
> and have to re-compile rather than use the binaries or straight RPMs.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of Erick Perez
> > Sent: Sat, 5/13/2006 12:21am
> > To: CentOS mailing list
> > Subject: [CentOS] Centos and Dual Core Opteron in a Tyan Mobo
> >
> >
> > Hi folks, an Asterisk (www.asterisk.org) box will be built with the
> > following specs and I wanted to know if CENTOS has a built
> > process/config/parameter/special distro to target the AMD Opteron Dual
> > Core plataform:
> >
> > 2 amd opteron 265 dual core 1.8 Ghz 2mb l2 cache
> > 2x1024 ocz c2-6400 dual channel gold GX XTC
> > 2 Seagate 16mb cache 300 GB barracuda 7200 drives
> > another 2 Seagate 500 GB 16mb cache baracuda ata 7200 drives
> > lite on dual layer lightscribe 16x dvd+rw/rw x48 drive
> > 4 port Sata Raid controller
> > raid - 10
> > 2 gigabit E broadcom 10/100/100 GBE lan controller
> > Tyan Thunder K8WE (S2895) motherboard or Tyan motherboards with
> > ServerWorks BCM5785 Chipset (or similar from Tyan only)
> >
> > All your comments will be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.